I just fixed (for Microsoft values of fixed) a friend's
b0rken win98 hard drive. It would no longer boot,
apparently due to having the boot files deleted and/or
win.exe. I dug up my old DOS super-rescue floppy, which
contains everything to bootstrap a DOS machine to a usable
state. It's been a while since I used edit; I think I need a new floppy with
vi on it. It's an interesting project; create a floppy
containing everything to make me productive in DOS. I'll be
making disk images for general distribution when I'm done.:)

Awwww, I can't upgrade my debian box to windows XP. That
makes me Sad(for Happy values
of sad).
[My regards to the hard-working WINE developers who made
this relevation possible. <vbg>] See the screenshot link
previously posted if you care.

There's nothing like telling the world about a pet project
to make you notice the HUGE bugs in it, and how ugly the
code is. I just finished fixing said problems(mostly) in
clab(now
version
0.1). If you downloaded it, the new version works
much, much better. Like, deleting entries when you tell it
to, and not having magic options.

I just spent an hour pissing around with my icewm
preferences. I got rid of the 'start' menu on the taskbar,
in an attempt to break that bad habit. Key combos are
the way to go. Now a button to pop up an xterm owns that
real estate. Screenshot
of my new background image and nifty-ized taskbar.

I also cleaned out the crap from the global 'menu' file,
since debian's menu program handles everything anyway.

What else? Midterm today, I think I did not too badly.
Midterm tomorrow night, which is going to suck.

clab(command line address book) now has a webpage here.
there's even *gasp* some documentation.

And my project for the day: write a lightweight address
book/rolodex thing that doesn't require a DB or X. If such
a beast already exists, let me know. In the
meantime, Ive got a 3k perl script that lets me add, view,
and update real-life contact info for people. like phone
numbers and such. If my website ever gets back online, I'll
post a link. Or if you're interested, I can mail it to you.

Sadly, I really could've used this while I still knew
where the contact info for certain people was. Oh well.
... Wait! just found my years-out-of-date contact
list, explorted <tangent>new word!</tangent>
from Outlook
back in the dark ages. I can get phone numbers for my
family, at least. They never move.

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Hey! Didn't MS say they were changing their TOS?!? While
attempting to re-activate my old hotmail account, the TOS I
was presented with contained the following:

MATERIALS PROVIDED TO MICROSOFT OR POSTED AT ANY MSN WEB SITE

Microsoft does not claim ownership of the materials you
provide to Microsoft (including feedback and suggestions) or
post, upload, input or submit to any MSN Site/Service or its
associated services for review by the general public (each a
"Submission" and collectively "Submissions"). However, by
posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your
Submission you are granting Microsoft, its affiliated
companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your
Submission in connection with the operation of their
Internet businesses including, without limitation, the
rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display,
publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat
your Submission; and to publish your name in connection with
your Submission.

Yesterday, I spent 8.5 hours in a computer lab, and wrote a
decent Java GUI for my second graphics assignment(the GUI
was chrome; I had a panel doing the interesting stuff by
hand). 8.5 hours to complete a programming assignment in a
language I started learning less than a month ago. Not bad.

Course, I don't want to be a Java programmer any more
than I want to be a web designer. Good thing it's being
cancelled out by me learning Forth...

I just installed berlin and 3dwm. Now to figure out how
to make them work.

I've been playing with WINE(as a user). I managed to start
up various MS-Office products and do decent things with
them. I also played minesweeper and freecell.

The reason for emulating is that one of my classes
requires us to use VMWare, which is EVIL. I also needed to
run a couple of windows self-extracting archives to get at
the code I needed. WINE does more than enough for me. :)

I've also learned a decent amount about forth for the
same class.

I'm trying to convince a friend to stop using pico. It
might work, eventually.

Life status: slighly better than crap, still not great.
I'm trying to volunteer myself to death.

jschauma: you didn't mention catdoc,
a command line tool that works like cat, but on doc
files. It's not 100% accurate, but it's close enough for my
purposes. The article was excellent; I'm passing it along
to one of my friends who I'm convincing to use linux. :)